stuff going on in the quilting world of Palouse and beyond

Saturday, April 10, Palouse Spring Open House 10am to 5pm. Eleven downtown business in Palouse, WA are welcoming spring. Enjoy unique shopping, great food, door prizes and refreshments.

Saturday, April 10, Bingo, Potato Bar and Silent Auction
5PM potato bar and silent auction fundraiser for the new Palouse Community Center, hosted by Needful Things Thrift Store.
7PM Bingo, hosted by the Palouse Lions Club
All this is at the Palouse Arts Council Building (grange hall) Palouse Washington

Saturday, April 17 10 am to 6pm and Sunday, April 18 noon to 5pm
Palouse Patchers Quilt Show
Admisson $5, seniors and children under 10 $3
Latah County Fairgrounds, Moscow, Idaho

Saturday, April 24 10 am to 5pm and Sunday, April 25th 10 am to 4pm
Seaport Quilters Guild Quilt show
Clarkston High School, Clarkston, Washington
Admission $3

Whew, that should keep you going until the shop hop, more info coming soon!!!!!

Well, we are coming up on the middle of March already. My 5th year anniversary of business will be on Saturday, April 3, this coincides with my birthday of April 2. I will have a 30% off sale, except all ready marked on items and consignments. I will have my favorite cake, chocolate and drinks, please join me in this event.
I am off to the beach for a couple of days. My friends Nancy Hill and Alvira Spangler will be in charge while I am gone. Lincoln City here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have new fabrics in the shop, sweet, sweet rose. A beautiful pink grouping and there is a free pattern with this line.
I haven't quite figured out the adding of photos to this blog, bare with me as I journey along on this new facet of my business.

making room

Well, with the help of my husband and two friends, we rearranged the store on Sunday. Mostly because my class room just wasn't quite big enough. It is very open now and hopefully we will be able to get more daylight in the back part of the store. Whenever I do this I get nervous about if it's the right thing to do. I don't mind changes, you have to go with the flow. However, I want the space to always be appealing to my customers. The only way to find out is to go with it. You never know what life has to offer if you don't go down that road. It's probably going to be great.

blogs that I like

Well, It's a beautiful day on the Palouse and I am ready for quilters to come into my store. This is the year that I have discovered Eleanor Burns method of quilting. You might see that in my class scheduling. I mean once I post it here, but you can view it at my stores website, www.smalltownequilts.com. Eleanor has a fun website too, www.quiltinaday.com.
I also have bec0me inamored with the selvaged edge blog site www.selvageblog.blogspot.com, you can do any kind of sewing projects using your slevage edges and their is no shortage, just ask your friends to give them to you.
My daughter also has a blog, www.kelseysquiltadventure.blogspot.com, please view her site and see what a 22 year old can accomplish when she puts her mind to it.

Social networking is not just on the internet. I have been doing this ever since I opened my quilt store. Ah, the conversations that go on here. New grandchildren, giving help for a backing selection, show and tell of grandma's apron, toddler skirts, baby quilts, and how do I get to Mosocw. This is the real networking. I am not adverse to change, most of the time I see it as an adventure and the opportunity to learn and grow. I am just slower at the technicial stuff that's all, but when I get it, I get it!!

Happy Me! This is a license plate I saw today. It made me think, what this persons life must be like if they can drive around stating that they are happy all the time. I would like to adopt that attitude everyday. I am happy when I am sewing, then it stops when I have to rip out a seam, then it starts up again when I'm just about done with a project. I am happy when my childern are around me, when the sun shines. What is it that makes you happy? How can we be happy everyday, or maybe just have moments of happiness. So let me know.

Welcome!

Hello everyone, welcome to my store's, Small Towne Quilts, blog. On this blog there will class schedules, prices, pictures, videos (hopefully!), advice, and much much more. I hope you all enjoy and feel free to ask any questions or give any advice!